It's about fucking time that we end the undeserved privilege enjoyed by those that resort to faith healing and put lives of those in their care in jeopardy.
I'm all for freedom of religious practice, but that support ends at the point where people who can't legally consent to belong to their happy fucking cult are harmed.
When I was in high school in the early 1980's, there was a family that lived a few blocks away. They had two children - I had grown up and gone to school with the younger son since grade school. Their daughter was a little older. The parents were "Christian Scientists". The daughter came down with pneumonia, and her parents refused to allow her to be treated. She was 17 when she died.
The son (who did not appear to share his parents religious convictions) was understandably very angry with his parents. Some time later, he killed both of them. He was released from prison about a year ago.
Three dead, and another life in shambles, all for want of an antibiotic treatment.
I'm all for freedom of religious practice, but that support ends at the point where people who can't legally consent to belong to their happy fucking cult are harmed.
When I was in high school in the early 1980's, there was a family that lived a few blocks away. They had two children - I had grown up and gone to school with the younger son since grade school. Their daughter was a little older. The parents were "Christian Scientists". The daughter came down with pneumonia, and her parents refused to allow her to be treated. She was 17 when she died.
The son (who did not appear to share his parents religious convictions) was understandably very angry with his parents. Some time later, he killed both of them. He was released from prison about a year ago.
Three dead, and another life in shambles, all for want of an antibiotic treatment.
